Luckiest Girl in the World

(photo by C Kao Photography)

This one's a DOUBLE!  Created during the Simply Obsessed Crop AND the prompt up at Candy Shoppe Designs "Go Green AGAIN" challenge.

And my March 2010 Lucky Me Kit WORKED PERFECTLY!

I'm not sure yet if I'm keeping this or giving this to my Mom to put in her Mother's Day scrapbook....

what do you think?

Here's the journaling:

"These beautiful babies make me smile and laugh everyday!  How lucky am I to share this life with them!  Here we are snapping photos at Martha Lake."

I took some k i memories lace cardstock and used it as a mask.

Loving all the green!

There's still time!  You have till March 31st to create and link up!  The sponsor is Wild Olive Kids!  CUTE STUFF!  So, head on over, become a follower and play!  You can even submit more that one entry!

And....because I love handmade and ALL THAT IS ETSY...here's a

Spotlight on Handmade
(I don't know how that title came to be...just started one day)!

I loooove these matching aprons!  Wish I could cook!

And look at this ADORABLE Alice In Wonderland Dress!!!!
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

And for you cupcake lovers......YUMMMMMMY!

So play along!!!!  Or just "window Etsy shop"....I love all the bright colors...I feel like a kid again!

Ugh...tomorrow is Monday...my LEAST favorite day of the week.  How do YOU feel bout Mondays?

Hugs,
Mo

Miss Mo's Wake Up Potion!

I love this layout...I LOOOOOOVE this layout...I luv THIS layout!

It's my FAVE drink!  Yummmmm!

TAAFOMFT prompt is Favorite Drink!  Well, I have MANY...

I'm not sure if you guys notice...but every so often...I bring in a piece of Hawaii into my layouts!  I used that cute hibiscus (the flower) and those journaling squares by Sassafras and that Sass printed paper....aaaaahhhh...HOME!

I SERIOUSLY created this layout with scraps in plain sight!  I'm not sure if I admitted this, but my scrap table is usually a MESS with odds and ends strewn about.  Things out of packages, pieces of torn paper and leftover scraps are ALMOST ALWAYS covering my scrap table and floors.  Gabe and Bel frequently play with buttons and leave them on the floor....and usually I just let it be!

I was feeling VERY creative so I took this old cardstock I had FOREVER and decided...I'm going to make a layout using this.  Then I looked over my messy table and pulled pieces here and there and put them together....VIOLA!

Have you ever done that?

I added the letters later to match but other than that, these scrappity scraps were an arm length away!  Ha ha....cool.

I got the cool idea about cutting your own scallop border freehand (from the Scrap Freak guru Bree -if I'm not mistaken)!  See!  It's so imperfect and yet....PERFECT!  I love it.

I'm dragging all morning long without my cup of coffee at work!  It's soo rough when there is a line-up at the Walk-In Clinic BEFORE we open!  Ugh....cuz then I KNOW I won't be getting my coffee until later in the day!

I make my Faux Starbucks...aka..."poor man's" French Vanilla Soy Latte!  Yummy!

I take my SILK (only this brand) Vanilla soy milk and add some French Vanilla syrup and a pack of that Starbucks instant coffee....yes....I said INSTANT....and ta da!

Another version is using Silk Extra Vanilla Soy Milk (the purple carton) and the Starbucks instant coffee...and done...you don't have to add any extra flavor!  You could also use your coffee maker and use a BUNCH of coffee with much less water than normal (to make it concentrated) and you can set your coffee maker to a slower brew time....ta da!

And see those tags on the side?  I just put pretty pieces of printed paper and tucked them in.  They pull out and I can write stuff on them...but I haven't yet...maybe I'll write the "recipes" I just shared with you above!

And YES....I admit it...I have a.....FASTENATER!  LOL!  I used that bad boy real good...ooh...that sounds dirty!

What's YOUR fave drink?  If you haven't already, play along!


NOW, it's time for.....

Spotlight on Handmade!

So, for my bday, I bought myself this GORGEOUS NECKLACE made by the beautiful Calia who is one of the FIRST people I met when I started meeting scrappers online a little over a year ago!

Calia, it's soooooo beautiful!  I adore it!  It's sooooooooo me!

You should check out the other goodies on her Spiderlily blog and BE SURE to join her Facebook Fan Page cuz you can see all the photos of her goods!

And when my pocketbook allows, I'd like to have these felt flowers.....

and these distressed tags!

Beautiful work Miss Calia!  You are sooooo talented girlie!  LOVE YOU!

Hope you enjoyed the eye candy again!  Stay tuned, I have more!

Hugs,

Mo

I'm Moving On...

I am LOVING these "Me" pages I've been doing.  And I am so very HONORED to be on All About Me's Design Team inspiring others to remember that scrapping about yourself is important.

YOU are the one scrapping and passion on the memories and stories to others.  The story is in YOUR words and EXPRESSION through the art we call scrapbooking.  But to tell THE WHOLE story, someone needs to understand the person behind the creations.

I created the title by using a gel pen to handwrite it.  I layered some FUN Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Stickles by Ranger to give it a clear, icy look.

I've been reminding myself to USE MY STAMPS...so I used some swirly stamps to fancy up the title and went back in with my white gel pen to jazz the swirlies up!

I also played with my liquid pearls by Ranger.

The challenge is to use this quote as inspiration for your layout:

"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."

I wrote about my experiences in my early Nursing career.  It WAS ROUGH, to say the least.  Here's the story in the journaling:

"Fresh out of Nursing School, I was doing what I'd dreamed I'd do.  It was SUCH a difficult start for me...so much so that others made me doubt myself and my purpose in life.  They put me down and became obstacles rather than supports.  And I didn't know enough then to be angry and fight for myself.  When I realized that I HATED to get up and go to work & counted down the hours till it was over, I knew I had to make a change.  In a career which eats it's young alive, I REFUSE!  I'd rather build someone up, than tear them down!"

I ended up quitting my job working on the Cardiothoracic Surgical floor and working for a different employer with a different philosophy.  I should have known when I found out the place I used to work was nicknamed "The Hellhole" by nurses around Washington State.  Ugh.

I may go back one day, because it really was an exciting place to be and something I'd like to try again now that I have MORE years and more FIGHT in me!

Oh!  And I used some embelly goodies in my creation!

Here's a SPOTLIGHT on Handmade Goodies!!!!

Have you guys seen London's Etsy shop called Such Sweet Tierney?  I think I stumbled across it when she had her DT call and BOY WAS I HAPPY I found this place!  She makes the coolest high quality handmade chipboard epoxy buttons (and some other cool stuff)!  And I LOVE that she is a Washingtonian just like me!

I got a BUNCH of em!  Like these BEAUTIFUL BABIES!

AND THESE SOPHISTICATED LADIES:

Shipping was quick and everything was packaged so beautifully and professionally!  WOW!

And her blog is TOO COOL!

So check this lady out...she's uber cool!

Oh!  And you'll catch the TALENTED Pearl there on the DT...she's so awesome!

Hope you enjoyed the fun eye candy!

Play at AAM with me!!!!!  There's a prize...but I don't know what it is...maybe it's up now...hmmmm....but the layout you create is prize enough...right????

Okay, so I'll share a couple photos from last night (My bday dinner at Mom's).

Me and my babies...and my cold sore!  Yuck!  Since LAST WEEK I've been slathering ointment and moisturizer on my "new friend"...er...actually enemy!  Not looking too horrible a week out, right?  (Yes...PLEASE LIE TO ME!)

We had Pancit Palabok...hmmmm...not quite sure how to explain this Filipino Dish: noodles and chicken and egg..that's the best explaining I can do.  And chocolate cake!  Yumm!

Can you guess how old?

Hugs,

Mo

You Complete Me....and some Silly Girls

OMG Beth P!  I was truckin' around with my fun outfit with the hat and my cool shirt, skinny jeans and these cool biker boots.....feeling oh so fresh....

I check the mail and what do I find?????

The necklace I custom ordered from my talented buddy Beth!

My dear, it was WORTH THE WAIT!

And soooooo perfect for me!  I love the colors!!!  And look how it matches perfectly with the outfit I wore today!  AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!  Thanks for the touches of turquoise!  Me loves!!!!

And here's another shot of Moi wearing my TOO-COOL-FOR-YOU necklace!  He he!  I LOVE the pearls!  I love how it's soft and girly and sooooo ME and I've got these biker boots on and I love the girly with the badness!  You're necklace sooooooooooo completed me today!  Ha ha!

Thanks my dear!  I sooooo love it!

If you are lovin' Beth P's stuff, or haven't peeked at it yet, go check out her Etsy:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/bethperry

and her blog

I Love Dirty Laundry

BTW....can you see my dirty laundry in the second photo??????  Ha ha!

I've also got some more craftiness to share!

So I got 2 of  the Pink Ninja Addicts Kits and I'm having so much fun with them!

The one I used below is the Three Little Birds Kit!

Except for the light blue cardstock, the Pink Paislee alphas and the MoMoStamper vintage die cut top note piece, and the CC die cut sticker, all the other elements are from the PNA Kit!

I used a sketch at Sketchy Thursdays for this layout and I love that freaking sketch!!!  I also created this wrap around title for one of the JSYS challenge at Scrap Freak!  If you need some help to Jump Start Your Scrapping (JSYS), head on over to Scrap Freak cuz the've got one for every day in January!

The photo is of Isabel and her cousin "Princess P".  These two girls are so girly and they love each other so!

Bel really loves playing with Princess P cuz she loves having "girl playtime".  I'm sure she craves it because on a day to day basis, all she has are boys to play with....Gabe and my 3 cousins ("Sweet T, Dimples, and J").

So when they see each other...they have tons of girly silly fun!!!!

Man, I'm on a bloggy roll this week!  I can't believe I've done so many posts!  He he!

Oooooooh!  I just figured out the topic of my next Pink Ninja DT layout I need to do!!!   Hmmmmmmm.

Maybe I can give you sneaks of the layout I did for the NEXT prompt!

Oh yes!  Please do visit us and try to play along with the current prompt!  You have a week left!!!!

Think....Resolutions

Black and White Photo

Pink Alphas.....

for more deets CLICK HERE!

OH!  ALMOST FORGOT.....If you missed the last post, you MUST check it out cuz it's PACKED with much EYE CANDY!  I have the Yummi-nees picked out for next week's Man of the Week!  The category is BLOCKBUSTER BABES!  THEN VOTE FOR YOUR FAVE IN THE SIDEBAR!  You have till Saturday 1/23/10 to cast your vote!

THANK YOU ALL for taking the time to visit today!

I love you girls...each and every one!

Hugs,

Mo

Mamma Mia!

Spotlight on Handmade!

The internet is AMAZING!  I've been known to waste hours on end on the computer (at least last summer) and as the busy season of Fall arrived, I had to make some tough choices...well, not really tough but some hard choices!  I've had to severely cut my online time...I was spending way too much time on the computer and less time with my kids.  Jessi really got me thinking (thanks girl) and I really had to ration my internet time.  Anyway, here I go babbling about less internet and what do I go telling you about????

My internet surfing finds!!  Ha ha!  I stumbled across this Etsy seller on Twitter (very cool).  Zafirenia is an Etsy seller from Greece (sooo cool) and as I peeked through her store all I could do was gaaaaassssp!  I think her jewelry is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous and the PRICES are amazing!  So, I promptly added several items to my wish list and emailed them to my family...he he!  But I wanted to share this goodness with you!!!

I LOVE that blue flower above and this pink one below!  GORGEOUSNESS!  This jewelry is really my kinda style!  I wish I could design some stuff like this...one day!

And this bracelet is beeeeaaaauuutiful (Julie, you're rubbing off on me!)!  I've been itching to take a trip to the cool antique mall near my home (thanks to Beth P)!  Gee ladies, you guys really seem to infiltrate my everyday life!!!

Gorgeous!

I love all the colors here!~!  Love it!

Here's part of Zafirenia's bio on her profile:

"I make jewelry for the last 10 years and it started as a hobby! I'm also a psychologist-psychodramatist and I love creating. I try to make fashionable but also time lasting and vintage style designs.   Almost everything inspires me in the material and non-material world. I don't prefer one style from another, but I certainly like a piece of jewelry when it is well-made, feminine and it reveals the mood of it's creator."

And I've had a chance to email back and forth with her...she's really super sweet!  I just can't believe I haven't stumbled across her store yet!  I'm so happy I did!

So, as we all are making up our wish lists..he he...shameful, I know.....(the family DID request I make one up) I thought I would share some cool finds with you all!!!

And some other news.  We celebrated Krystal's birthday last week!  We met up at Red Lobster (yummmmm...I love seafood)!  Emmy, we missed you!!!  We missed you too Hubbs!

Krys and Bel...so cute!  Bel jumped right up when the ice cream and cake was delivered!  She dug right into the yummy goodness!  So did Gabe!

And a sweet kiss from Auntie....so cute!

And we hitched a ride from Mom and Dad and I find out some really cute things....apparently the kids frequently ask my parents to play the Mamma Mia soundrack...they LOVE it!

I'm sitting next to Gabe and he says "Lola (grandma), I want Mamma Mia!"  So my mom plays the soundtrack....FUN!  Gabe's humming on my right and Isabel is in FULL CONCERT mode on my left....and I think how lucky I am to be so happy!

Of course, I JOIN IN!  Because I LOVE Abba...their songs remind me of my childhood (Dad was a fan too...still is)!  The whole family is singing in the car....the car ride home was sooo fun!

This picture was way too cool.  My thumb sort of directed that red light a certain way and the photo turned out like this....cool!

And here's Gabe in the middle of singing.

I LOVE Bel's face here!  My Mom cracked up when she saw this photo!  Bel is gonna kill me when she grows up!

Well, that's my sharing for today!  I thought you'd get a kick outta the funny family photos!

My Favorite Cowboy

So here's the next Sketchy Thursday Sketch! I'm posting late...trying to catch up. You have till next 10/7 11:59 pm EST to link up!

I chose to scrap more photos from Gabe's 1st Birthday. We had a cowboy-themed birthday party and his birthday fell on Thanksgiving in 2007. F-U-N!

Oh! And the sponsor is SCRAP FREAK! So, get FREAKY, and check out the forum and store! The DT is AMAZING! Prices are great and the price of shipping is excellent! Love that place!

I used one of the canvas tags made by Jessi! Want one? Let her know and she'll probably be able to custom make more! Contact her on her website or Etsy: Krafty Kates.

This one's a quickie! I'm working on one of those layouts I can't wait to share! It's for Scrap That Poetry! Yup! The FIRST CHALLENGE IS UP! So.....CHECK IT OUT!

Thanks for swinging by! By the way, what's the weather like where you live? Here in Bothell, Washington, it's been drizzly on and off. It's not too cold outside and I love it! Overcast skies....loving it today! Call me crazy!

Hugs,

Mo

Hot Mama Apron and a GIVEAWAY!

I have been LOOKING and LOOKING for a super cute apron! Funny thing is I HATE COOKING......but I figure, if I can make it more fun and fashionable...I might like it better??????? I ALMOST got this apron at Pier 1 Imports just the other day...but then I thought.....ya know, you could totally get one on Etsy and help support an Etsy owner! So I put the apron back. Yay me!

Then, I went blog hopping today and found this awesome Etsy store called Boojiboo! It is toooooo toooooo super dee duper cute! This is the apron I soooooo want! I also am trying to decide between the one above and this one:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE black and white and LOVE LOVE LOVE turquoise! Sooooooo perfect! But I'm worried about the white :( Hmmmmmmm.
Anyway! You can ALSO enter a giveaway for one of these babies! HERE you can read a review and enter the giveaway at The Giveaway Diva Blog! You can also enter lots of other giveaways there! This giveaway ends on the 21st so HURRY! There are soooo many ways to enter! Check it out!
Which one do you think I should choose????????